Bachmann: 'Turning point' for U.S.A.

Rep. Michele Bachmann on Thursday called the health care decision “a turning point in American history” and said the only hope for repeal is for voters to oust President Barack Obama in November.

“This is the first time anything like this has happened. This is a turning point in American history. We will never be the same again with this denial of liberty interests,” the Minnesota Republican said on CNN.

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Bachmann said the House will put forward a full-scale repeal bill that will likely pass, but acknowledged “that will be for show only.” The key for repeal now, she said, is in November’s election. With all the legal options exhausted, those against the health care reform law will “look for a political solution,” Bachmann told CNN.

“If there is a majority in the Senate, and a majority in the House, and if we have a Mitt Romney as the next president of the United States, we can and we will repeal Obamacare,” she said. “That is the hope that America needs to hold on to — that we will repeal Obamacare, and we will finally see economic recovery in the United States. There is no hope of that if Barack Obama wins a second term and if Harry Reid continues to hold the gavel in the United States Senate.”

Bachmann, who was in the court room on Thursday, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that she and fellow Republicans are “profoundly disappointed” in the decision.

“For my mind, this is clearly unconstitutional,” Bachmann said. “There is no basis in the Constitution for the government to have this level of history-making expansion of power. Because now this means for the first time in the history of the country, Congress can force Americans to purchase any product, any service that Congress wants them to, which means that Congress then determines the price. And we are forced to, which is a denial of liberty.”

The former presidential contender also slammed the court’s decision as “even more far reaching” than anyone had anticipated.

“What they did is not just uphold Obamacare, this Supreme Court rewrote Obamacare in line with its own designs,” she said. “So this is an even more far-reaching decision than anyone had expected or imagined.”